Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 140
of eighteen or twenty shaftscluster together, and sometimes the smaller shafts crouchunder the capitals of the larger, and hide their heads in thecrannies, with small nominal abaci of their own, while thelarger shafts carry the serviceable abacus of the whole pier,as in the nave of Rouen. There is,… … Fig. XXVIII. stretched itself out to do all the work: here there are idleabaci getting up into corners and doing none. § xxvii. Finally, we have considered the capital hithertoentirely as an expansion of the bearing power of the shaft,supposing the shaft composed of a single stone. But,…
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